• Mrs. Bates Book Recommendations

LOOKINg FOR A GOOD BOOK?

  • The Hull Media Center has close to 10,000 fiction books and 8,000 non-fiction books for students to check out. There is ALWAYS something good available! There are numerous display shelves to grab a book off of, and below are some lists of recommended (not required!) reading.


    Many teachers will take their classes to the Media Center for a “Book Tasting,” which is also an excellent time to find a good book! Find your next good book!

     
Expand All

  • Adventure

    • The Gallagher Girls series by Ally Carter
    • The Ranger’s Apprentice series by John Flanagan
    • Vango by Timothée de Fombelle
    • Good Dog by Dan Gemeinhart
    • Outrun the Moon by Stacey Lee
    • The HIVE series by Mark Walden

  • Fantasy

    • The Chronicles of Prydain series by Lloyd Alexander
    • The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani
    • The Land of Stories by Chris Colfer
    • Eon by Alison Goodman
    • Pendragon by DJ MacHale
    • The Apothecary by Maile Meloy
    • Wings of Fire series by Tui Sutherland
    • The Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner
    • Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
    • Gregor the Overlander series by Suzanne Collins
    • A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer

  • Historical

    • Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
    • Inside Out and Back Again by Thanha Lai
    • Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
    • One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
    • Countdown by Deborah Wiles
    • Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
    • Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
    • Zane and the Hurricane by Rodman Philbrick
    • Keeping Corner by Kashmira Sheth
    • Miss Spitfire by Sarah Miller
    • Full Cicada Moon by Marilyn Hilton
    • Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
    • A Long Walk to a Water by Linda Sue Park
    • Iqbal by Francesco d’Adamo

  • Humor

    • Ungifted by Gordon Korman
    • I Funny by James Patterson
    • Guys Read: Funny Business
    • The True Smekday by Adam Rex
    • Chomp by Carl Hiaasen
    • NERDS by Michael Buckley
    • Sidekicked by John David Anderson

  • Mystery

    • The Name of This Book Is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch
    • Colin Fischer by Ashley Edward Miller and Zack Stentz
    • Three Days by Donna Jo Napoli
    • Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage
    • The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin by Josh Berk

  • Non Fiction

    • Kids of Kabul by Deborah Ellis
    • Outcasts United (adapted for young people) by Warren St John
    • Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah
    • The Greatest by Walter Dean Myers
    • The Great and Only Barnum by Candace Fleming
    • Slaves Who Dared by Mary Garrison
    • The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson
    • Chasing Lincoln’s Killer by James L Swanson
    • The Red Bandanna (adapted for young readers) by Tom Rinaldi
    • How to Code by Max Wainewright
    • Never Quit by Jimmy Settle
    • The Word Snoop by Ursula Dubosarsky
    • The Elements by Theodore Gray
    • Calling All Minds by Temple Grandin
    • Guinea Pig Scientists by Leslie Dendy
    • Simeon’s Story by Simeon Wright
    • Proud by Ibtihaj Muhammad
    • My Thirteenth Winter by Samantha Abeel
    • Slumgirl Dreaming by Rubina Ali
    • The Diary of Ma Yan by Ma Yan
    • How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson
    • The Real Benedict Arnold by Jim Murphy

  • Realistic

    • The Green Bicycle by Haifaa al Mansour
    • Does My Head Look Big in This? Randa
    • The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
    • Anything But Typical by Nora Leigh Baskin
    • Kinda Like Brothers by Coe Booth
    • Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
    • Blindsided by Priscilla Cummings
    • Out of my Mind by Sharon Draper
    • The Mother-Daughter Book Club by Heather Vogel Frederick
    • Tall Story by Candy Gourlay
    • Twerp by Mark Goldblatt
    • Operation Yes by Sara Lewis Holmes
    • The View from Saturday by EL Konigsburg
    • Silhouetted by the Blue by Traci L Jones
    • Rules by Cynthia Lord
    • Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar
    • Auma’s Long Run by Eucabeth Odhiambo
    • Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
    • Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
    • Millicent Min, Girl Genius by Lisa Yee
    • Leap of Faith by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
    • Restart by Gordon Korman
    • The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen
    • Boys Without Names by Kashmira Sheth

  • Science Fiction

    • Michael Vey by Richard Paul Evans
    • The Tomorrow Code by Brian Faulkner
    • Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix
    • Randoms by David Liss
    • Cinder by Marissa Meyer
    • Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
    • Dragon and Thief by Timothy Zahn
    • Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

  • Sports

    • The Crossover by Kramer Alexander
    • Change-Up by John Feinstein
    • Football Hero by Tim Green
    • Pop by Gordon Korman
    • The Way Home Looks Now by Wendy Wan-Long Shang
    • The Girl Who Threw Butterflies by Mick Cochran